The man in the skull walks into a dark room.
"Everyone is in place." He types as a text on his phone.
"I'm quite aware you should get ready as well. "
The responder replies.
He puts the phone down and places another A.E.R. device in his belt. he loads a rifle and places it in a duffel before responding.
"I'm waiting on your orders now, sir. Should I pursue the drive again?"
"No, that's no longer a priority. Focus on eliminating the prisoner. Zane and the professor will end up crossing paths with the numbered children."
"Understood." He replies.
He removes the mask, revealing two eyes, and they are of glass, black in colour, with red dots at their centres.
2:15 pm
Five whistles and a faint red dome appear over the park for a second, it fades, but suddenly three wild lions appear in the centre. Everyone runs away in fear, but one of the Lions guards the gate, trapping the people in the park.
Police within the area respond to 112 calls, and two squad cars make their way to the park.
Six speaks into her headset:
"Five is in place, Eight ..."
He sirs with a screwdriver, tinkering with an A.E.R. device in hand.
"Just one second, you fried this thing..."
The blue ring in the centre lights up.
"...but I got it."
He switches it off and looks at a bird in the distance flying over the building, as soon as he sees its eyeball, a ring appears around him and the bird, and they instantaneously swap places. He's now falling downward towards the building.
He takes out the device and activates it, throwing it within the dome, a loud crackling noise occurs, and the dome dissipates.
"The A.E.R works on a wavelength that overlaps a N.E.X.T's zone and negates it, but when a negative meets another negative, they cancel out."
"I didn't ask, but you did your part, get five and rendezvous with me as soon as you can.
He looks around until he sees a wall gecko, and they swap places before he hits the ground.
He walks on a road, waiting until a blue concertible driving on that lane suddenly stops. He smiles as he makes contact with the female driver in sunglasses, a tank top, op and jeans.
"Let's see...driving shouldn't be that hard..."
He puts his hand on the steering and presses his foot against the pedal, and the car jerks forward.
The female driver runs to him, and he looks around and sees the gear shift.
"R is probably reverse..."
He shifts into reverse, and the car speeds backwards as the woman runs to catch up to the car.
Six walks to the police station, where the remaining officers ensure the prisoner is still guarded.
When she enters, she walks down the corridor with a few lights illuminating the path. They all suddenly go off, and Six is caught off guard but continues walking. Suddenly, darkness envelops her as the red-haired woman seals one end of the hallway with a very dense layer of ink.
"Freeze!"
She hears the policeman on the other end with a gun.
Her veins start to glow, but nothing happens to him.
"I'm outside your zone, N.E.X.T. Your ability won't reach me, and if you move, I shoot."
She puts her hands up, and the man tosses her a pair of handcuffs, similar to the ones that inhibit her powers.
"Put 'em on, I give you five seconds!"
Suddenly, there's a loud explosion coming from the prison side of the building.
2:35 pm
Pryce and Zane emerge outside the police building.
"Why are we outside the police station? "
"Trust me, you'll appreciate my choice soon."
He and Zane walk to the side of the building, and Price pulls out something from his coat, a remote.
Suddenly, purple spikes emerged from the ground, impaling both their feet.
"Professor...We need to stop meeting like this."
"You...attacked...me." He says as he and Zane both seethe in pain.
"It took too long for you to recover your specimens, so I had to step in."
"Don't ...flatter yourself...this is all part of my plan."
"Oh? Humour me, what's the next step?"
"Zane... try not to die!"
"What?"
He presses the button on this device, and the spikes immediately dissipate.
Zane falls down as Price falls to his knee.
"H..how?"
Her veins glow deep blue, and a large ball of ink traps both of them with tendrils reaching for Pryce's hand. He pushes the button again, and it dissipates, spilling ink on both Zane and Pryce.
He then aims it at her and presses the button once more, she feels strong vibrations so much that her bones and teeth start to vibrate.
"Entropy disruptor. Don't ever think you're ahead of me." He says, walking past her.
"P...Professor. " Zane feels the exact same effects and reaches out to him.
"Oh, my mistake. I forgot to inform you that it affects the cells of certain living organisms within a small diameter. I'm sure you can guess what species."
"T...turn it off."
He walks to Zane and is about to take the glove, but as he does, the woman pulls out a gun and fires at Pryce.
The green dome appears over them.
Zane snapped his finger before Pryce could take off the glove.
Zane hobble toward the police station but stops when he sees Pryce throw the gun at the woman
"You didn't think I would make that glove without a way for me to escape it."
"You tried to kill me just now."
"I was just reaching you not to trust everyone...including me."
3 MONTHS AGO
At night, Zane was with a cast on his arm, sitting in the passenger seat with Tim driving with an angry expression.
"I...I'm sorry, Tim. "
"I told you not to go to that party and you didn't listen...again."
"I just thought I could handle myself if things went south."
"The doctors would see it differently."
They end up in traffic.
"Pull up your windows, this is a dangerous area."
Zane winds up with a window but notices the driver in the car beside them is unconscious with his head on the wheel.
"Tim, look at this."
Tim looks over and sees it as well.
"Oh no. I hope he's okay."
Tim unbuckles his seatbelt.
"I thought you said this was a dangerous area."
The cars on the other side drive around him, and the cars behind Tim start honking.
Tim, without hesitating, runs out to check if he's okay. He locked the car with Zane inside and gave him the key.
"I'll be right back."
He ran out and banged into the man's windshield, but he didn't respond. He eventually had to call emergency services, and only when they showed up did Tim return to the car.
As soon as he entered, Zane hugged him.
"Please don't do that again. "
Zane cried.
"Zane, in this world, we always have choices to make. I just made one."
"But it was dangerous."
"I know, but sometimes trusting that voice in your head and sticking to your decisions is the most important thing. Can you promise me you'll trust yourself?"
PRESENT
Zane moves the gun from the woman.
"Nonone is dying today."
"You do realise she's a killer."
"That's her choice, not mine."
"I see that idiot who adopted you has given you some useless morals."
Zane clenches fist
"Say one more thing about my brother...I dare you."
Pryce smiles
"Code six feet under."
The glove immediately shuts down, and the green zone fades.
The woman rushes towards them when a blue convertible flies over the fence and smashes into the wall
2:36 PM.
The crash makes the policeman lose his composure; Six throws the cuffs at him. He dodges as she runs towards him to close the distance between them. He fires another shot at the ground, making her stop.
"Nice try."
She puts her hands up, but puts them down and walks towards him.
"Took you long enough."
"Hey, stop or I'll...."
There's a loud clang as Eight hits him in the back of the head with a fire extinguisher.
"Sorry, Five had to use the bathroom."
"Where is she anyway? "
All the policemen were lying on the ground facing up and smiling, they're within Five's Zone and are all imagining they're relaxing on hammocks on a tropical Island.
Six and Eight reach the back, where Zane Pis is pointing the gun at Pryce.
"Oh, more company."
"Six?" Zane smiles, seeing her.
Eight is shocked.
"Wait, you survived too?"
During the distraction, the price quickly presses the button on the Entropy disruptor, causing all of them to fall down in pain.
"He takes the gun from Zane and walks to the red-haired woman.
"I think I'm going to have to put this personal project on indefinite hold."
He fires two shots at her, and her body becomes limp.
"Now as for you...."
A gunshot comes from behind, and Pryce falls to the ground, his blood staining the white coat as he falls unconscious.
The device stops, and they're able to stand up. They see the shooter is the man in the skull mask, he stands on the ledge of a building. He throws a teargas canister and fogs up the area.
As Zane, six and eight, cough, struggling to see. The man vanishes along with Pryce and the red-haired woman.
In Limbo, the door opens, and the skull-masked man emerges with Pryce and the Red-haired woman.
"Rose!" The woman in black, seated on one of the eleven silver thrones, uns to her side.
"Vital resuscitation protocol now!"
The robot's eyes turn blue, its hand disassembles and reassembles into a cuff, monitoring her pulse, making beeping sounds whenever her heart beats, it sprays her wound, nanobots fly out and start repairing her wound.
"Donor blood required."
"I'm a match!" The woman in black says, readying her arm for blood to be taken.
"You did well, scout."
The blue hologram with an LED mask with a cartoon smile on it says.
The hologram fades, revealing a lone teenage girl in a t-shirt with a skull on it and ripped jeans and slippers.
"I'd say the experiment went well...oh sorry about your bodyguard. "
"T...thanks you, madam, I enjoyed every moment serving."
Tge
"Grid." A man in a green visor and
The woman in black stands up and returns to her throne.
"Scout, prepare her burial and forge medical documents, tonsure she passed from a heart attack."
"Shall I notify her family?"
"...I was her only family."
"Understood."
The robot carries the body in its arms and leaves the room.
The door with twelve words appears behind them, and people emerge.
A man in a black suit and red tragedy mask, a woman in a blue dress, white arm length gloves and an owl mask, a man in a full body red samurai armor with a gouki mask on, a man about about eight feet tall with reptilian skin, a man in a suit with a battle axe, a man with clown makeup on among others enter and take seats on thesilver thrones, a man in avold coloured suit, grills and golden tinted glasses among others enter the room
"Let us begin our meeting by saying the experiment is complete, Professor Pryce is not fit to be in our employ."
The girl in ripped jeans says
The man in the red mask says
"But what about his...experiment, we need someone to continue it for the success of the Incarnation.
He looks at a tapestry on the wall showing twelve knights standing around a seal.
"It's only a matter of time before "he" returns."
Zane is sitting in his apartment with six bandages on his feet.
Five is feeding forty-four with a spoon. Before he sleeps on the couch.
"Ow!"
Zane protests
"You're such a baby." She says, blushing.
"I knew you two would end up together, you were always so close when we were kids."
"I...I don't remember...and...and...we're not together!" He says, looking away from Six.
"It makes sense, Pryce must've done something after the Goldsmith helped you escape.
"Umm...Six, can you remind me mentally?"
"It...could hurt."
" I trust you, he says, holding her hand."
Her veins glow white, and he feels a sharp pain before seeing a tall man standing with his arms spread, shouting.
"You want these kids?! You'll have to kill me first!"
The gruff sounding old man bellows as his veins take a golden glow.
In an abandoned lab, Ed listens tl a recording.
"...Should I vanish for more than twenty-four hours, initaye the contingency. "
He walks to a human sized tube, frozen with the name Goldsmith on it